1 That sounded like bull to Herodotus.

2 We know from the observations of Herodotus nearly a century later that they were still treating the animal with the utmost respect.

3 Herodotus can only get us so far; to go farther we need another guide.

4 A page of Herodotus would have been sufficient to put a battalion of biblical scholars out of action.

5 Herodotus described auctions held in ancient Babylon to sell young maidens of marriageable age.

6 Herodotus only wrote about places he knew.

7 Is he the Chinese Herodotus?

8 According to Herodotus, the Magi were the sacred caste of the Medes.

9 We can discover from documents many well-known writers, Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, Socrates, etc. , were involved in the same- sax relation.

10 If you go through college without reading Thucydides, Herodotus and Gibbon, you'll have been cheated out of a great repertoire of comparisons.

11 According to Herodotus, the Magi existed in Persia in the sixth century BC.

12 In the fifth century, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus mentions them several times in his Histories .

13 Herodotus and Thucydides are two milestones in the western History of historiography.

14 But Herodotus is too alluring a companion for one who would write an outline of History.

15 The Greek historian Herodotus told of its use in the form of pitch for building and road making in the ancient city of Babylon in present-day Iraq.

16 In so far as it justified the oracle, the story of Herodotus was first broadcast from Delphi.

17 The elaborate burial of the Scythian kings is described by Herodotus and is almost entirely confirmed by archaeology.

18 Yet by many measures it remains as richly endowed as in ancient times, when the Hebrews pined for its fleshpots and Herodotus dubbed it the gift of the Nile.

19 Even the limestone in the Egyptian pyramids contains foram remains, the ancient historian Herodotus noted.

20 Malcolm started reading Kant and Nietzsche, H. G. Wells and Herodotus; he even tried to memorize the dictionary.

21 In the second chapter, I mainly discuss the method of Herodotus and Thucydides.

22 Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals,[] and no Herodotus to record them.

23 Ancient GREece produced many well - known historians such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, such as Polley than Oslo.

24 Relativism allows for such differences as those recorded by Herodotus.

25 The poet Pindar read his victory poems at the Olympics , and Herodotus his history.